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Secret Warriors vol 2: God of Fear, God of War by Hickman, Vitti and McGuinness

Still a good story but it feels a bit like a slow crawl now. Prefer Casselli over this artist too. Good build up but I didn't really like the last issue. Felt weird. The Dark Reign List story was really cool.

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Secret Warriors vol 2: God of Fear, God of War by Hickman, Vitti and McGuinness

Still a good story but it feels a bit like a slow crawl now. Prefer Casselli over this artist too. Good build up but I didn't really like the last issue. Felt weird. The Dark Reign List story was really cool.

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Basically this keeps the pace of the first two books going. In typical Hickman fashion, this build up to something big. I kind of wish something would happen that in some way significantly advances the plot. This one delved into secret histories and introduced us to the Soviet equivalent of SHIELD and Hydra. Art is still great and of the things I consistently like about this book.

Basically this keeps the pace of the first two books going. In typical Hickman fashion, this build up to something big. I kind of wish something would happen that in some way significantly advances the plot. This one delved into secret histories and introduced us to the Soviet equivalent of SHIELD and Hydra. Art is still great and of the things I consistently like about this book.

Outhouse Drafter

Young Avengers Vol. 1: Sidekicks - Got my hands on a copy of the first hardcover of Young Avengers last night. I remember liking it when I first read it but honestly, I had forgotten how much I liked it. Heinberg really did a great job creating interesting new characters for the Marvel Universe, especially Kate Bishop, who easily steals the spotlight in this book. Even though Iron Lad was only around for the first six issues of this series and the Children's Crusade mini, it's hard to think about Kang the Conqueror anymore without thinking about Iron Lad as well. With Kang playing such an important part in Uncanny Avengers, I would if we will hear anymore from Iron Lad as well.

Cheung art's is gorgeous as always. Too bad he doesn't work faster because I would love to see him working on a high profile, on-going series like Uncanny Avengers.

Outhouse Drafter

Young Avengers Vol. 1: Sidekicks - Got my hands on a copy of the first hardcover of Young Avengers last night. I remember liking it when I first read it but honestly, I had forgotten how much I liked it. Heinberg really did a great job creating interesting new characters for the Marvel Universe, especially Kate Bishop, who easily steals the spotlight in this book. Even though Iron Lad was only around for the first six issues of this series and the Children's Crusade mini, it's hard to think about Kang the Conqueror anymore without thinking about Iron Lad as well. With Kang playing such an important part in Uncanny Avengers, I would if we will hear anymore from Iron Lad as well.

Cheung art's is gorgeous as always. Too bad he doesn't work faster because I would love to see him working on a high profile, on-going series like Uncanny Avengers.

Mad Hatter

I just finished reading "The Bean: Riddles and Shrooms" by Thomas Hanson. I met him at Phoenix Comicon yesterday. He was a real nice guy, and a pretty awesome artist. "The Bean" reminds me a lot of Jeff Smith's "Bone", which is awesome since "Bone" is one of my favorite graphic novel series of all time.

I also picked up a few other trade while at the con. "Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men", "Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: The Jungle Book Vol. 1" and "Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Robyn Hood Vol 1". I got to meet Christopher Mitten the artist of "Criminal Macabre", as well as both the artist and writer of "Robyn Hood". All were really nice guys.

As an unrelated note, I would like to say that Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy was kind of a jerk. I don't know if he just has a big head or something, but he came across as extremely arrogant. I could have got an autographed print by him, but I decided not to just because of his attitude. Kind of a shame because I like Hellboy a lot.

Mad Hatter

I just finished reading "The Bean: Riddles and Shrooms" by Thomas Hanson. I met him at Phoenix Comicon yesterday. He was a real nice guy, and a pretty awesome artist. "The Bean" reminds me a lot of Jeff Smith's "Bone", which is awesome since "Bone" is one of my favorite graphic novel series of all time.

I also picked up a few other trade while at the con. "Criminal Macabre: No Peace for Dead Men", "Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: The Jungle Book Vol. 1" and "Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Robyn Hood Vol 1". I got to meet Christopher Mitten the artist of "Criminal Macabre", as well as both the artist and writer of "Robyn Hood". All were really nice guys.

As an unrelated note, I would like to say that Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy was kind of a jerk. I don't know if he just has a big head or something, but he came across as extremely arrogant. I could have got an autographed print by him, but I decided not to just because of his attitude. Kind of a shame because I like Hellboy a lot.

Rain Partier

Who's your lead person to promote your campaign? This isn't meant to sound discouraging, but it seems like someone needs to be doing the full-time job of promotion that most successful campaigns require. Crowd-funding sites typically don't do much if anything to help on that end, but you need to have a very large crowd of motivated people to succeed with a campaign like this one.

Who's your lead person to promote your campaign? This isn't meant to sound discouraging, but it seems like someone needs to be doing the full-time job of promotion that most successful campaigns require. Crowd-funding sites typically don't do much if anything to help on that end, but you need to have a very large crowd of motivated people to succeed with a campaign like this one.

Twenty-Something

Victorian Squid wrote:Who's your lead person to promote your campaign? This isn't meant to sound discouraging, but it seems like someone needs to be doing the full-time job of promotion that most successful campaigns require. Crowd-funding sites typically don't do much if anything to help on that end, but you need to have a very large crowd of motivated people to succeed with a campaign like this one.

I'm trying to do everything by myself, if it doesn't work then you'll be able to say "I told you so". But let's try to stay optimistic.

Twenty-Something

Victorian Squid wrote:Who's your lead person to promote your campaign? This isn't meant to sound discouraging, but it seems like someone needs to be doing the full-time job of promotion that most successful campaigns require. Crowd-funding sites typically don't do much if anything to help on that end, but you need to have a very large crowd of motivated people to succeed with a campaign like this one.

I'm trying to do everything by myself, if it doesn't work then you'll be able to say "I told you so". But let's try to stay optimistic.

Rain Partier

Arion wrote:I'm trying to do everything by myself, if it doesn't work then you'll be able to say "I told you so". But let's try to stay optimistic.

Argh, no that's not what I'm--I get plenty of shadenfreude, thank you. What I was hoping you'd say was that the other people involved in the book also had large online social groups to appeal to as well as yours!

Good luck! I'm over-pledged this week, but maybe before the end. Since we've been talking in other threads about crowd-funding and people being wary of projects that get only partial funding, what do you intend to do if you fall short of your goal by, say, half?

Rain Partier

Arion wrote:I'm trying to do everything by myself, if it doesn't work then you'll be able to say "I told you so". But let's try to stay optimistic.

Argh, no that's not what I'm--I get plenty of shadenfreude, thank you. What I was hoping you'd say was that the other people involved in the book also had large online social groups to appeal to as well as yours!

Good luck! I'm over-pledged this week, but maybe before the end. Since we've been talking in other threads about crowd-funding and people being wary of projects that get only partial funding, what do you intend to do if you fall short of your goal by, say, half?

Twenty-Something

Victorian Squid wrote:Argh, no that's not what I'm--I get plenty of shadenfreude, thank you. What I was hoping you'd say was that the other people involved in the book also had large online social groups to appeal to as well as yours!

Good luck! I'm over-pledged this week, but maybe before the end. Since we've been talking in other threads about crowd-funding and people being wary of projects that get only partial funding, what do you intend to do if you fall short of your goal by, say, half?

Schadenfreude? Ich sprechen Deutsch nicht.

Don't worry, you're one of my friends I know you weren't trying to say something bad.

To answer your question, I'll publish the comic even if I get less than half of the funds.

The good thing is that I'm working now so I can cover some of the printing costs. And, also, because I'm working I don't need to "get paid", so the only one who will get money is my artist (which is fair because he has done a great work).

Twenty-Something

Victorian Squid wrote:Argh, no that's not what I'm--I get plenty of shadenfreude, thank you. What I was hoping you'd say was that the other people involved in the book also had large online social groups to appeal to as well as yours!

Good luck! I'm over-pledged this week, but maybe before the end. Since we've been talking in other threads about crowd-funding and people being wary of projects that get only partial funding, what do you intend to do if you fall short of your goal by, say, half?

Schadenfreude? Ich sprechen Deutsch nicht.

Don't worry, you're one of my friends I know you weren't trying to say something bad.

To answer your question, I'll publish the comic even if I get less than half of the funds.

The good thing is that I'm working now so I can cover some of the printing costs. And, also, because I'm working I don't need to "get paid", so the only one who will get money is my artist (which is fair because he has done a great work).

Rain Partier

Don't worry, you're one of my friends I know you weren't trying to say something bad.

To answer your question, I'll publish the comic even if I get less than half of the funds.

The good thing is that I'm working now so I can cover some of the printing costs. And, also, because I'm working I don't need to "get paid", so the only one who will get money is my artist (which is fair because he has done a great work).

Don't worry, you're one of my friends I know you weren't trying to say something bad.

To answer your question, I'll publish the comic even if I get less than half of the funds.

The good thing is that I'm working now so I can cover some of the printing costs. And, also, because I'm working I don't need to "get paid", so the only one who will get money is my artist (which is fair because he has done a great work).

Rain Partier

It's a friends' campaign to republish to great looking book by Mark Rudolf about the waning days of record stores. You might dig it. Mark's very talented, also a nice person. It's getting pretty close to making its goal, I have a feeling it will go forward in some capacity at this point.

It's a friends' campaign to republish to great looking book by Mark Rudolf about the waning days of record stores. You might dig it. Mark's very talented, also a nice person. It's getting pretty close to making its goal, I have a feeling it will go forward in some capacity at this point.

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This was crazy long to read. I liked the X-Men stuff the best but was surprised that I liked the New Mutants as much as I did. I was bored as fuck with the X-Factor stuff even though it was a classic story. The tie-ins were boring, especially the Daredevil issue which felt like a bad Dark Knight Returns rip off. Even though the event was only 3 issues a piece, they included 6 or so issues from each series so it was nice to be more caught up than to just have to jump into the three-issue event.

This was crazy long to read. I liked the X-Men stuff the best but was surprised that I liked the New Mutants as much as I did. I was bored as fuck with the X-Factor stuff even though it was a classic story. The tie-ins were boring, especially the Daredevil issue which felt like a bad Dark Knight Returns rip off. Even though the event was only 3 issues a piece, they included 6 or so issues from each series so it was nice to be more caught up than to just have to jump into the three-issue event.